After a deadly shooting between teens, the Shaker Heights Public Library has worked to maintain its communal offerings and social programs for youth.

Nonprofit groups in Cleveland decried federal funding cuts to programs designed to prevent gun violence.

After losing his best friend to gun violence, Lorenzo Roberson has called on the City of Cleveland and its leaders to combat the issue before more lives are lost.

Ideastream's Connecting the Dots series features stories about gun violence and the Northeast Ohioans working to find solutions.

A lawyer with Legal Aid is holding trainings with law enforcement to teach police officers about a form that can be used in the Ohio court system to track firearms in domestic violence cases.

The Lorain County Urban League provides a new violence interruption program with a public health approach to solving gun violence.

The Eddie Eagle cartoon, produced by the National Rifle Association in the late 1980s, is being used in Cleveland, Akron and cities across the country to try to teach children gun safety. But research shows it's ineffective.

Law enforcement touted dozens of gun arrests in 2023, many for selling machine gun conversion devices.

In the program, "credible messengers" - past gun crime offenders - work with individuals in the community to find peaceful alternatives to conflict.

Since the Neighborhood Safety Fund's rollout in fall 2023, the city has granted two million dollars to 43 community groups.

Cuyahoga County's economy has changed. Nonprofit medical institutions now dominate in a county where manufacturing was once king. Now some are asking, "Who pays property taxes when your economy is dominated by tax-exempt nonprofits?"

In Cleveland, the debate over whether the holdings of nonprofit hospitals should be exempt from property tax are informed by the racism and redlining.

The expansive holdings of nonprofit hospitals like the Cleveland Clinic are at the center of an on-going debate over whether tax exemption policies should apply to large nonprofits like hospitals that critics say operate more like for-profit businesses than charities.

On Monday evening, Cleveland City Council unanimously passed legislation to create the Cleveland Commission on Black Women and Girls.

Carl Allamby, a former East Cleveland car mechanic who made national news when he graduated from medical school at age 47, will complete his medical residency at the Cleveland Clinic’s Akron General Hospital this weekend.

Part II of the Out of Despair series addresses the historical trauma of enslavement that remains unresolved for many African Americans and exacerbates racial health disparities, experts say

Dave's Market closed in Euclid Beach, in North Collinwood, creating a food desert. Could a nonprofit or co-op work there?

Updated: 4:15 p.m., Thursday, April 28, 2022The Greater Cleveland Association of Black Journalists (GCLEABJ) will host a town hall-style forum to bring…

Cleveland City Council created a coalition of government leaders and advocacy groups to dismantle systemic racism in the city when it declared racism a public health crisis two years ago. Since then, the coalition leadership says the group has met privately, monthly, shielded from public view.

For many years, Black babies have been 3 to 5 times more likely to die in their first year of life than white babies across Northeast Ohio. A Kent State…